India injury crisis: BCCI secretary to visit COE in Bengaluru amid fitness crisis in Indian cricket team originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.KEY TAKEAWAYS:BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia will visit the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru on Sunday.The visit comes amid a spate of injuries that has rocked the India cricket team.Saikia is set to meet Head of Cricket VVS Laxman to review injury management.BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia to review injury crisis at Centre of ExcellenceThe mounting injury crisis in Indian cricket has prompted action from the very top, with BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia set to visit the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. The trip is aimed at taking stock of a situation that has left the national side badly depleted.Saikia will meet Head of Cricket VVS Laxman on Sunday to review the rehabilitation and injury-management programme at the facility. The meeting comes as the CoE has increasingly resembled, in the words of some observers, a hospital ward rather than a high-performance centre.The visit is understood to serve a dual purpose, marking two years of the Centre of Excellence while also addressing the growing concern over the number of players sidelined. Whether head coach Gautam Gambhir, currently in Sri Lanka, and chief selector Ajit Agarkar join the meeting virtually remains unclear.Cricket journalist Kushan Sarkar, who reports for PTI, flagged the significance of the visit on X. He noted that Saikia is respected for never avoiding questions on record, and suggested it would be welcome if the BCCI secretary and Laxman could front up and allay fears surrounding the situation.Some #COE news. Tomorrow @BCCI Devajit Saikia will be in Bengaluru. Reason two-fold: Celebrate 2 years of COE and also more importantly take a stock of current situaation where COE is more of a 'Mini Hospital Ward'.The best thing about Mr Saikia @lonsaikia is that he never Kushan Sarkar (@kushansarkar) August 8, 2026MORE:Full list of injuries suffered by India stars in 2026: Latest updates with Indian cricket in a fitness crisisThe full list of India's injured players at the CoEThe scale of the problem is stark, with a long list of frontline players currently undergoing rehabilitation. India will be without pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who has knee swelling, for the ongoing Sri Lanka tour.Joining him on the sidelines are B Sai Sudharsan, ruled out with a left big toe injury, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy, both nursing hamstring problems, and Washington Sundar, who has a quadriceps issue. Fast bowler Akash Deep has been out the longest with a lower-back stress fracture.The concerns extend to the white-ball group as well, with Hardik Pandya, Varun Chakravarthy and Prince Yadav all at the Bengaluru facility. It leaves the Sports Science team stretched, particularly with the department lacking a permanent head since Nitin Patel's resignation in early 2025.Interim sports science head Dhananjay Kaushik is currently overseeing operations, but questions have emerged over the rehabilitation timelines and whether return-to-play protocols are being consistently applied across every case.MORE:Sudharsan ruled out of Sri Lanka Test series: Three players who can replace injured Indian batterWhy the BCCI can no longer ignore the pattern of breakdownsThere is a case that injuries are simply part and parcel of sport, and no medical setup can eliminate them entirely. But the sheer volume of breakdowns, coupled with the confusion around Bumrah and Sudharsan's fitness timelines, points to a systemic issue that the BCCI is right to confront head-on.The absence of a permanent sports-science head is the glaring gap. A state-of-the-art facility is only as good as the people running it, and until the BCCI fills that vacuum and tightens its return-to-play protocols, episodes like this will keep recurring.Saikia and Laxman fronting up with answers would be a start, but the real test is whether Sunday's meeting produces structural change rather than reassurance.For all the latest cricket news, opinion and commentary and to share your voice head to our Facebook, Instagram and X (Twitter) pages.